By: Diane Benjamin Swearing in the newly elected board members and picking a new chair is tomorrow: https://www.mcleancountyil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/10566 Weren’t Democrats the ones who demanded meetings be held when people could actually attend? This meeting is at 8:30 AM. As long as Lizzy Johnston is subject to possible investigation for illegally shaking down County employees to […]
By: Diane Benjamin Continuation of this story: https://blnnews.com/2024/11/29/alleged-illegal-activity-at-mclean-county/ Lizzy is Elizabeth Johnston. She plans to be the new County Board chair since the Democrats are now the majority. (I told you this is going to be fun!) The text messages below are between Trevor Sierra and Lizzy Johnson. Trevor is requesting a refund for the […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you did believe in term limits you would be marking every judge NO: Voting YES is NOT going to save County taxpayers any money: If this passes an auditor will be appointed instead of elected. Auditors have to be independent. Appointed isn’t. The best way to take out someone who isn’t […]
By: Diane Benjamin VOTE Bloomington sample ballots: https://www.becvote.org/wordpress/electiondatesandoffices/specimen-ballot/ Everywhere but Bloomington: https://www.mcleancountyil.gov/692/Sample-Ballots You have to vote either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or nonpartisan (only matters for Letory and El Paso-Gridley Schools). Picking a party doesn’t make you a member of that party. It does prevent you from seeing the same old names on the ballot again in […]
By: Diane Benjamin Illinois has not cancelled the primary election for Tuesday! Evidently rumors are on social media saying it is. Show up! Still undecided on Dan Brady? This should help: You can’t get rid of McLean County Auditor Michelle Anderson unless you pull a Republican ballot. She needs to go!
By: Diane Benjamin The statement below is from the City of Bloomington’s CAFR for the year ended 4/30/2019. Yes, they finally got around to posting it but it still hasn’t been presented to the Council. Of course data that is 6 months old is pretty useless in the private sector, why care about what government […]
By: Diane Benjamin I think I know what is going on between the McLean County Auditor and Treasurer, it isn’t the huge problem Michelle Anderson is making it out to be. Back in 2014 there was a referendum asking if the Auditor job should be abolished. I said NO – but the person holding that […]
by: Diane Benjamin If you didn’t make it to the bottom of the credit card list in this report: http://blnnews.com/2014/04/16/michelle-anderson-has-something-to-hide/, you missed the art purchase for Michelle Anderson’s office.
Update: I talked to the former County Auditor Jackie Dozier. The credit card assigned to Michelle Anderson is also used by departments that do not have their own credit card. That may account for at least some of the redactions. My FOIA request was for all charges and receipts to the Auditors credit card, […]
by: Diane Benjamin See this post from yesterday: http://blnnews.com/2014/04/04/mclean-county-michelle-anderson-investigation/ County Auditor Michelle Anderson ran for office calling herself a watchdog. Evidently the rules apply to other offices, not to hers. As reported yesterday, she paid for new furniture for her office out of a personnel fund. the $13,000 should have been returned to the County […]
by: Diane Benjamin According to the Pantagraph, County Auditor Michelle Anderson has been questioned by the County Finance Committee concerning the purchase of new furniture for her office. Evidently the furniture wasn’t budgeted, the money came from a personnel account. The question now is whether she will be held accountable for shifting money. The Pantagraph […]
With McLean County still rated “F” for transparency by the Illinois Policy Institute, what ever happened to the March 2012 promise by the current County Auditor, Michelle Anderson, to put the County checkbook on-line? Another election time lie Michelle?
